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Tableau Training
Since the beginning of SIF, I've been on the Tobacco Ebook project. I have learned iBooks Author layout and design techniques, which has completely reoriented my thinking about how design works, and increased my attention to detail by... a lot. This week, I got moved...
Another Post on Gamification!
Hey All! I've been working like crazy on comprehensive exams this week and thought I would share some of the latest dialogue on Gamification I've researched and written. I think it's a highly relevant topic to a lot of contemporary research that has any public...
Formatting Data for Tableau, data visualization software
Tableau seems to be gaining traction as the go-to platform for data visualization. It's common enough around CURVE and online to warrant learning or at least becoming familiar with. It's an easy to use data visualization software with features far above the...
Time For Some Updates
I have been a member of the SIF family now for a little more than two months, so I guess it's about time to go through all of my projects for this semester and give you updates on each. 1) Hybrid Pedagogy Promotional Videos This project has been a straightforward one...
Giving Artists New Tools Through Science And Technology
Building connections between seemingly disparate areas is one of the joys of being an artist. It's also one of the biggest challenges. Conceptually, artists are trained (or train themselves) to look at topics from multiple angles and to build relationships that...
Integration and Finalization
This week has been truly and completely hectic. However this hectic schedule was not because of our work at SIF but due to our midterm examinations. Almost all our examinations and assignment submissions were due this week. Luckily, everything went well and we were...
Inspiration from TEDxPeachtree: SIF Symposium
Its here. Midterms. As the academic calendar continues to progress, midterms allow you the awareness of "further than we were, but not yet where we need to be" in classes and projects. The same mindset has been being applied to SIF as I had my first small group...
National Day on Writing Success!
In case you didn't hear, this past Tuesday was the National Day on Writing. And thanks to a bunch of people in the English Department, the Linguistics department, and some other organizations (I think there was a sorority involved somewhere), it went off really well....
Fun With Digital Signage
Hey all! Just wanted to give a quick update on what we're doing with digital signage. In addition to trying out the iPad portal idea--we're looking into making LeapMotion controllable screens where students can interact with 3d scanned objects from the MARTA...
Tweaking the SIF
This afternoon I went to a very interesting talk by Rich Halverson of the University of Wisconsin, which raised two major issues, one about the SIF program in general, and the other about one of my SIF projects, the American History Video project. To keep the post to...
“Education, Technology, and Society”
This week I sat in on the two presentations given by Rich Halverson on : Education, Technology, and Society Speaker Series Center for Instructional Innovation. Much of his presentation was analyzing how technology does and can influence the way we educate and the...
BatchGeo: a simple tool for visualizing point data
I would like to begin a series of "Maps for the Classroom: How To" blog posts that will share with readers different tips, trips, and tools that educators can use with little to no training to visualize spatial data. The first tool I would like to highlight is called...